How many episodes are in The Copenhagen Test?

The Copenhagen Test has 8 episodes in this listed season.

When does The Copenhagen Test premiere?

The Copenhagen Test premieres on 2025-12-27.

Is The Copenhagen Test a new series?

The Copenhagen Test is a new series (Season 1).

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The Copenhagen Test(2025)

Also known as Copenhagen

Archived · Peacock

7.112+8 eps

S01

MysteryAction & AdventureScience FictionThriller

ON AIR: DEC 27Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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The Copenhagen Test builds its near-future espionage around a premise that is genuinely unsettling: a man's senses have been hijacked, and whoever is watching through them does not know he knows. The sci-fi element stays intimate, no spectacle, just the creeping horror of a compromised mind in a world that looks ordinary.

Forced to perform normalcy as his only real tactic, the analyst cannot react, cannot confide, cannot slip. That performance becomes the story's sustained pressure point, a slow-burn of controlled behavior while paranoia accumulates underneath. The threat is invisible and internal, which keeps the dread quieter and more persistent than anything an external antagonist could deliver.

Best for

mind-hacked mystery, near-future espionage and Mystery

Story lane

Mystery and Action & Adventure

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Peacock

Official Premise

A first-generation analyst realizes his brain's hacked, allowing access to his senses. Stuck between the agency and hackers, he acts normal to reveal the culprits.

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Strongest Match

Pluribus delivers the same near-future paranoia as The Copenhagen Test, where the main character has to keep performing normal while the truth underneath gets harder to touch. Enforced cheer and hidden facts create constant dread, and the slow investigative pacing mirrors the feeling of being watched from inside your own head.

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Why this pick

Silo scratches the same itch as The Copenhagen Test, with a protagonist refusing to accept official answers while every step forward costs something personal. The confined-world mystery unfolds through careful, dangerous questions and escalating consequences, keeping tension tight and methodical rather than action-heavy.

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Why this pick

The Capture shares The Copenhagen Test’s obsession with surveillance and unreliable perception, turning what you see into a weapon that can be twisted. British scenes move fast with sharp contradictions, and the uncertainty around evidence keeps you tense as the story tightens around the characters’ choices.

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